Capcom-Unity.com posted the second part of their interview with Daigo Umehara. What is the best way to practice? How do you practice?
I recommend a three-step-method. First, as I said earlier, you first should practice and master all the fundamental skills you need to win. Next, you practice your defense moves in order to protect yourself. After you master how to restrict opponents' moves, then finally, you move on to the stage where you develop your own offence method and style and practice your way of attacking opponents.
Does emotion play a part in your matches (either your emotion, or the emotions of your opponent?)
It is very big. How to control my emotion not only at big tournaments but even on regular practice matches, I think, is one of the most important elements. In particular, at big tournaments, I pay full attention to how I can be in a good mental state or not to be in a bad emotional state to play my game. I don't really try to evoke emotion in the other players. I focus on my gameplay. How I could bring out my best mental condition and best gameplay is what I consider most important.
@darko_p86
hit the nail on the head there mate... whats the point of posting the rival fights and intro sequences. ruining the game already and its not even out yet!
Really Daigo?
Well, my usual plan to do things is to follow that whole procedure, but heres the catch... skip step 2 completely
@darko_p86
least we dont know what the vanilla SF4 disc bonus is yet... eventhubs has even posted a video showing the new menus :| as soon as i seen the deejay one i closed the video. Once we get the game its gonna feel like we had it all along because so many videos on here already
lol i feel a bit sorry for sakurafan now... its a good gesture mate, just a bit too enthusiastic. Thanks anyway
i notice japanese in general give very long thought out answers, while americans just go, yeah u know what im saying u just gotta be hittin them buttons yo....
lol, jwong has great answers tho
-You said you could quickly categorize play style of your opponent. What types of categories do you have?
I start with breaking them into two large categories. One is the type loyal to theories. The other is the type that is loyal to his intuitions. From there, I further break them into smaller groupings; for instance, aggressive or passive, high-risk & high-return, or low-risk & low-return. I analyze a player against those categories and figure out his play style.
This is so importaint you don't even know. take notes.
Ryu ’s Rival in SSF4 will be: Mago
Ken ’s Rival in SSF4 will be: Daigo
E.Honde ’s Rival in SSF4 will be: Daigo
Ibuki ’s Rival in SSF4 will be: Daigo
Makoto ’s Rival in SSF4 will be: Daigo
Dudley ’s Rival in SSF4 will be: Daigo
Seth ’s Rival in SSF4 will be: Daigo
Gouken ’s Rival in SSF4 will be: Daigo
Akuma ’s Rival in SSF4 will be: Uryo
Gen ’s Rival in SSF4 will be: Daigo
Dan ’s Rival in SSF4 will be: Daigo
Sakura ’s Rival in SSF4 will be: Daigo
Juri ’s Rival in SSF4 will be: Daigo
Chun Li ’s Rival in SSF4 will be: Daigo
Dhalsim ’s Rival in SSF4 will be: Daigo (again) or probably Mago
Abel ’s Rival in SSF4 will be: Daigo
C. Viper ’s Rival in SSF4 will be: Tokido
Bison ’s Rival in SSF4 will be: Daigo
Sagat ’s Rival in SSF4 will be: Daigo
Cammy ’s Rival in SSF4 will be: Daigo
Deejay ’s Rival in SSF4 will be: Daigo
Cody ’s Rival in SSF4 will be: Daigo
Guy ’s Rival in SSF4 will be: Daigo
Hakan ’s Rival in SSF4 will be: Daigo
Guile ’s Rival in SSF4 will be: Daigo
Blanka ’s Rival in SSF4 will be: Daigo
Zangief ’s Rival in SSF4 will be: Daigo
Rufus ’s Rival in SSF4 will be: Daigo
El Fuerte ’s Rival in SSF4 will be: Daigo
Vega ’s Rival in SSF4 will be: Daigo
Balrog ’s Rival in SSF4 will be: Daigo
Fei Long ’s Rival in SSF4 will be: Daigo
T.Hawk ’s Rival in SSF4 will be: Daigo
Adon ’s Rival in SSF4 will be: Daigo
Rose ’s Rival in SSF4 will be: Daigo
whats he makin? looks like scrambled eggs. must be the secret source of his immense street fighter skill.